This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...of the Church himself, and also by the man who must be recognised as the second founder, without whom, indeed, it is hardly conceivable that Christianity could have survived the ruin of Jerusalem. Jesus himself was, as has often been reiterated, a man of his time, as well as a man of eternity;1 and he apparently shared ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...of the Church himself, and also by the man who must be recognised as the second founder, without whom, indeed, it is hardly conceivable that Christianity could have survived the ruin of Jerusalem. Jesus himself was, as has often been reiterated, a man of his time, as well as a man of eternity;1 and he apparently shared, within limits, the awe with which the Jews regarded the Old Testament. But it was only within limits; for no one who regarded the written Word as unchallengeably supreme could possibly have spoken those passages in the Sermon on the Mount which contrasted the ancient law of the letter with the law of the spirit of life then struggling for utterance. "Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time.... But I say unto you...." The first of these contrasts deals with the sixth commandment, on which Jesus puts an entirely new and unheard-of interpretation; for he declares that what the eternal law behind the letter condemns is not merely homicide or violence, but unjustifiable anger and opprobrious language. To say that this only brings out the spirit of the commandment is surely to trifle with words. It proclaims a deeper morality, and in doing so it supersedes the old law. The second contrast, dealing with the seventh commandment, is not so violent. Still, the analogy of Scripture, and the Latin word adopted in our translation to express the forbidden crime, both suggest that the original prohibition extended only to intercourse with married women.1 But Jesus not only enlarges the scope of the prohibition by extending it to all women, he again unveils an eternal law superseding the letter and condemning even illicit impulse. It is, of course, true that "fornication and all other deadly sins" of the kind were condemned in...
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